Blackguard?

[MatthewJHanson]

So the blackguard is noticeably absent from the prestige classes in the Core Rule book (having being in the 3.0 and 3.5 DMG and SRD).

Is there any particular reason for this? Did the survive elsewhere?

 

[ComradeGnull]

I imagine Paizo's reasoning was something like: this is a prestige class primarily used for a small number of NPC's and a very small number of evil-only campaigns. The book space would be better spent adding a prestige class with broader use in a game that more players would be likely to take.

Don't know of an Official PF version, but looking at the Blackguard in the d20 SRD, it seems like conversion would be pretty automatic. Here is one such conversion from the Pathfinder Database.

 

[Noir le Lotus]

In the Advance Player's Guide, there is an "archetype" for Paladin, the antipaladin who killed the blackguard and took his stuff, as a base classe.

 

[MatthewJHanson]

In the Advance Player's Guide, there is an "archetype" for Paladin, the antipaladin who killed the blackguard and took his stuff, as a base classe.

I don't have APG yet, but I found the antipaladin in the PRD. Unfortunately it has to be chaotic and I am looking to make something lawful.

 

[Noir le Lotus]

Did you check the Hellknight ?

 

[James Jacobs]

Hellknight is a good option for a lawful evil heavilly armored character.

We have not and have no plans to update the blackguard prestige class, though; our take on the fallen paladin is instead the antipaladin archetype. We knew some folks would end up preferring the blackguard prestige class as a solution to that, though, which is why we didn't call ours a "blackguard" but instead called it an antipaladin. Even though we have no plans to update the blackguard or do anything with it in Pathfinder, we didn't want to "use up" the name for something drastically different than what it was used as in 3.5, so that folks could just use the 3.5 rules for the prestige class (after making the appropriate adjustments to its saving throw progression) as-is in their Pathfinder games.

 

[Razuur]

I don't have APG yet, but I found the antipaladin in the PRD. Unfortunately it has to be chaotic and I am looking to make something lawful.

It is YOUR game. If you want lawful and the GM agrees, make it so!

Great thing about Pathfinder - it is compatible with 99% of d20. And it IS your game.

Make a few tweaks, get the GM permission, and you will soon see evil Blackguards striding through Golarion!

 

[Thotas]

I've always hated that word "antipaladin", so I'm using "Blackguard" for it when I run my Pathfinder game someday. Rolls off the tongue so much better, especially after I found out it's pronounced "blaggard".